I wrote my first full-length play, THE SINGULARITY, in 2011. It was a dark, absurd sci-fi comedy set in a reality that might not be ours but is certainly adjacent to it. The story was about trying to find connection and meaning in a world grown cold and complex. In a fun bit of accidental prescience, one of the characters enters wearing a face mask, years before the pandemic came a-knockin'.

A handful of years later, the real world turned dark and absurd (though not very funny). It's hard to be a satirist when life produces a new absurdity daily, so my desire to write for the theatre dried up. In fact, I thought I was done forever.

But, like many decisions made under emotional stress, things changed.

A decade after I'd given up on being a playwright, I sat down and wrote THE LAST TRUCK STOP. It's a story about our potential dim future that, much like Dorothy's trip to Oz, bursts into technicolor and ends on a strong note of hope and love for ourselves and each other. The story came forward just in time for me, and I can't wait to share it with an audience who's also looking for signs of light.